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In Defense of Bullying: my latest at Taki’s
By Kathy Shaidle on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 No Comments

Bullying: is it all bad?
Decades ago, radical feminists broadened the definition of “rape,” fiddled with statistics, occasionally just made stuff up, and successfully invented the still-lucrative Harassment-Abuse Complex. The newly spawned bullying industry followed that blueprint.
It helps that the idea of the “bully-as-lonely-misunderstood-victim” (who is just a hug away from redemption) is already a familiar pop-culture trope. The next task is to mesmerize timid, conformist parents with statistical shell games and “studies” to give them a new cause to siphon off their abundant free-floating guilt.
Allergies, asthma, and ADD are so last year. On to the letter “B”!

***UPDATE: What was I telling you? Today’s gay bullying news (this is a guy, right?)
Know who really do kill themselves a lot?
Middle aged straight white men.
I blame gay bullies and their feminist handmaids, for making them feel “unsafe.”

UPDATE: thanks to the 5FF reader who sent this in…
Then Isabela raised her hand: “Sometimes my uncle wears black nail polish.” The students took a moment to think about this.
Hey, teachers: Instead of obsessing about imaginary “gender bullying,” teach yourself punctuation then teach it to kids.